Panacea prola
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Panacea prola, the prola beauty or red flasher, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Costa Rica to southern Brazil, but is most common in the foothills of the eastern Peruvian Andes. The wingspan is 65–75 mm. The underside of the hindwings is bright red without markings. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 3 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red Flasher sighting in Caracas on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 69th most-seen of the 107 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red Flasher in Caracas on a given day, against under 5% in September and November–June, the lowest months. That is one of Caracas's wettest months, with about 100 mm of rain against 15 mm in March.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red Flasher sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Caracas, in our data
Caracas is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Red Flasher sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Red Flasher that you can see in Caracas (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are White Peacock (about 20%), Red Peacock (about 20%) and Coconut Caterpillar (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red Flasher is recorded against all the insects logged in Caracas (7 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
